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The braided rug is falling into a willow basket.

Ida Hertel winding rag strips, which were sewn end to end, into balls. Later the balls would be woven into carpet strips.

Preparing for carpet weaving using a shuttle stuffer to stuff rags into a shuttle for a semi-automatic loom. He winds the wheel with one hand, which brings the cloth through the two wheels and into the shuttle, while tamping the cloth down with the…

Emil Schaufuss weaving carpet with a semi-automatic loom. Shuttles stuffed with colored rag strips line the window sill behind him, with the shuttle stuffing machine, used to prepare the shuttles, in front of the loom.

Dorothy Trumpold weaving carpet strips on her hand loom.